Expelling the Poor
| Author | : Hidetaka Hirota |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9780190619213 |
| ISBN-13 | : 019061921X |
| Rating | : 4/5 (21X Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Expelling the Poor by : Hidetaka Hirota
Download or read book Expelling the Poor written by Hidetaka Hirota and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expelling the Poor argues that immigration policies in nineteenth-century New York and Massachusetts, driven by cultural prejudice against the Irish and more fundamentally by economic concerns about their poverty, laid the foundations for American immigration control.